Quote by John Barth Download Open image ““There is no way to master the fact with which I live.”” — John Barth ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“You cannot master something whose doing is not the foundation of your lifestyle.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“You mustn't speak certain kinds of truth, not if you want to go on living.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“It really isn't where you live as much as who you live with that makes a place feel like home.” — Carla Reighard Copy Share Image
“When people tell you that you can’t live your way, don’t believe them.” — Joseph V. Ciarrochi Copy Share Image
“Anyone can live anywhere. You think you can't in the beginning, but then you do.” — Jamie Zeppa Copy Share Image
Tis e'er the wont of simple folk to prize the deed and o'erlook the motive, and of learned folk to discount the deed and… — John Barth Copy Share Image
“So, I begin each day with a gesture of cynicism, and close it with a gesture of faith; or, if you prefer, begin it… — John Barth Copy Share Image
I admire writers who can make complicated things simple, but my own talent has been to make simple things complicated. — John Barth Copy Share Image
Printed prose is historically a most peculiar, almost an aberrant way of telling stories, and by far the most inherently anesthetic: It is the… — John Barth Copy Share Image
“There's a great difficulty in making choices if you have any imagination at all. Faced with such a multitude of desireable choices, no one… — John Barth Copy Share Image
The first obligation of the writer is to be interesting. To be interesting; not to change the world. — John Barth Copy Share Image
Yet everyone begins in the same place; how is it that most go along without difficulty but a few lose their way? — John Barth Copy Share Image
A curious thing about written literature: It is about four thousand years old, but we have no way of knowing whether four thousand years… — John Barth Copy Share Image
He wishes he had never entered the funhouse. But he has. Then he wishes he were dead. But he's not. Therefore he will construct… — John Barth Copy Share Image
